So true, and by downloading this comment to your browser for display, you deprive me of my god-given right to get money for free. My lawyers will contact you shortly.
However, you do have the option to settle this before the court and lawyers get involved, for a mere tenth of the sum it would otherwise cost. Just dial 555-I-IDIOT and follow the instructions, and the problem will be out of your world in a couple of minutes. Remember to have your credit card and IP address ready.
only thing, its sloooooooooooooow. I did some tests a while ago (v0.6.0) and the speed was about an order of magnitude below a raid5 setup on the same machine.
Strange, since RAM and CPU is easier to replace than MB. And in my personal experience RAM is the #1 culpit if random stuff keeps happening. So IMO if you can't point to a specific part, then try memory first. Due to how much work it is with changing MB, that would be one of the very last things I'd do.
...there is a story that depends on drawn pictures to be told. No story I've seen with drawn pictures to date has used drawn pictures as anything more as gimmick, always the same old concept of something brightly colored nonsense. I may be a used-cart salesman's best friend, but even *I* know when I'm being taken for a ride.
...there is a story that depends on moving pictures and sound to be told. No story I've seen with moving pictures to date has used moving pictures as anything more as gimmick, always the same old concept of something flying around the screen. I may be a used-car salesman's best friend, but even *I* know when I'm being taken for a ride.
If you're so easily irritated i for one am glad your career has nothing to do with explosives or heavy equipment;)
After about two weeks on an internet help desk, you'd even see Dalai Lama frothing at the mouth, waving around a double-barred shotgun threatening to teach those idiots what Double Click really meant.
After two months you'd see the heavy onset of apathy coming on, and after two years your brain will automatically shut off when talking to a customer, and your questions and responses will be entirely mechanical. Either that, or you're insane.
You should not underestimate the weapon-grade stupidity many IT people are exposed to daily.
I was playing Carmageddon 2 when I took my license. And that did in fact help me.
I learned car handling and how shall we say it.. pathfinding? from it. Having a feel of car physics, and being able to near instantly see the best way to drive (car's physical handling taken into consideration) in complicated situations did help in a lot of cases.
I especially rembember the "slippery road" training part (it's mandatory here in Norway at least). Driving along the track, some puppets pop out, and in under half a second I've modelled the position of the puppets, calculated the current friction of the road, applied it to the car's physics, and knew exactly the best way to drive. And it went perfectly like I've calculated. The driver instructor sat there with his mouth open, turned to me, and asked "Where the HELL did you learn to drive like that??" - I looked back at him and told him "you really don't want to know.."
It was the same reflex calculation I usually did when I tried to hit as many pedestrians as possible, or finding out how to best wreck an opponent car. Just with a different goal this time;)
Reminds me a bit of a story I heard once from one of my teachers.
There are some small power control stations around, and this was about one of those. This particular one was high up in a mountain, and a capacitor was in need of change. Size a bit smaller than a garage.
So a person put the new capacitor in his backpack (yep, one of the rather big ones..), got up there (took a few hours), cut the power, removed the old one and popped in the new one. Put on the power, everything looked ok and he went back down.
When he got back down, the central had tried reaching him for a while, because they'd lost contact with it. So up again he went, and when he got up there, the power station was gone. There was some wood splinters here and there, and some twisted metal, maybe enough to fill a bag. But the station was gone.
Shouldn't web browsers be almost embaressingly easy to parallellize, or am I missing something here?
Each page in its own thread / process, plus loading of page:
1. dns resolve 2. fetch html 3. parse html
3a. find css link, start thread for fetching and parsing css
3b. find image link, start thread for fetching and parsing image
3x. so on and so forth for other resources encountered. 4. run js in seperate thread if needed 5. run plugins in seperate threads / processes
The lags I forsee here are network related, and as far as I can see, it should be rather easy to parallellize large chunks of it.
But, as I haven't written my own web browser, I'm probably missing something fundamental here.
1. The border patrol agent is the face of the american government, and thus the face of USA 2. The agent acted out of line, with physical abuse (punches to the face, unneccesarily maced) 3. It's caught on camera. 4. The agent seem to have no consequences from it. 5. The unlucky victim is found guilty of breaking the law, by essentially asking why he was punched in the face
Are you still wondering why people react? That guy should be given a public apology, and the border guard should be kicked out. Instead, the law (aka government, aka USA) supports him, and criminalizes the victim of the abuse.
Let me see.. Rocket engine, uplift much higher than weight, 1000mph...
That's a jet plane, not a car. Sure, it got better landing wheels than normal, and a bit special body, but it's still a goddamn jet plane. If that's a car, we've had flying cars for over 50 years now.
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Every. Download. Is. A. Lost. Sale.
It's an empirically proven fact.
So true, and by downloading this comment to your browser for display, you deprive me of my god-given right to get money for free.
My lawyers will contact you shortly.
However, you do have the option to settle this before the court and lawyers get involved, for a mere tenth of the sum it would otherwise cost.
Just dial 555-I-IDIOT and follow the instructions, and the problem will be out of your world in a couple of minutes. Remember to have your credit card and IP address ready.
People willing to pay mucho money for it = art
People willing to pay mucho money to remove it = graffiti
Logical, really.
Sniper's a good job, mate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PrHKs2c0ZQ
because people make mistakes. All the time (and with people I'm also counting in the programmers).
only thing, its sloooooooooooooow. I did some tests a while ago (v0.6.0) and the speed was about an order of magnitude below a raid5 setup on the same machine.
Ah, memories. I did that to my duron. Or, to be precise, I actually soldered it (had access to equipment meant to fix mobile phones)
Chip worked well all the way into retirement. BTW, the pencil trick could be unreliable over time. Soldering was not :)
You might like Breach, looks promising at least.
Youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQmXifRw9nM
Strange, since RAM and CPU is easier to replace than MB. And in my personal experience RAM is the #1 culpit if random stuff keeps happening. So IMO if you can't point to a specific part, then try memory first. Due to how much work it is with changing MB, that would be one of the very last things I'd do.
...there is a story that depends on drawn pictures to be told. No story I've seen with drawn pictures to date has used drawn pictures as anything more as gimmick, always the same old concept of something brightly colored nonsense. I may be a used-cart salesman's best friend, but even *I* know when I'm being taken for a ride.
...there is a story that depends on moving pictures and sound to be told. No story I've seen with moving pictures to date has used moving pictures as anything more as gimmick, always the same old concept of something flying around the screen. I may be a used-car salesman's best friend, but even *I* know when I'm being taken for a ride.
If you're so easily irritated i for one am glad your career has nothing to do with explosives or heavy equipment ;)
After about two weeks on an internet help desk, you'd even see Dalai Lama frothing at the mouth, waving around a double-barred shotgun threatening to teach those idiots what Double Click really meant.
After two months you'd see the heavy onset of apathy coming on, and after two years your brain will automatically shut off when talking to a customer, and your questions and responses will be entirely mechanical. Either that, or you're insane.
You should not underestimate the weapon-grade stupidity many IT people are exposed to daily.
Ve-a ere-a zee Burg. Yuoor beeulugicel und technulugeecel deestinctifeness veell be-a edded tu oooor oovn. Yuoor cooltoore-a veell edept tu serfe-a us. Reseestunce-a is footeele-a. Bork Bork Bork!
I was playing Carmageddon 2 when I took my license. And that did in fact help me.
I learned car handling and how shall we say it.. pathfinding? from it. Having a feel of car physics, and being able to near instantly see the best way to drive (car's physical handling taken into consideration) in complicated situations did help in a lot of cases.
I especially rembember the "slippery road" training part (it's mandatory here in Norway at least). Driving along the track, some puppets pop out, and in under half a second I've modelled the position of the puppets, calculated the current friction of the road, applied it to the car's physics, and knew exactly the best way to drive. And it went perfectly like I've calculated. The driver instructor sat there with his mouth open, turned to me, and asked "Where the HELL did you learn to drive like that??" - I looked back at him and told him "you really don't want to know.."
It was the same reflex calculation I usually did when I tried to hit as many pedestrians as possible, or finding out how to best wreck an opponent car. Just with a different goal this time ;)
Reminds me a bit of a story I heard once from one of my teachers.
There are some small power control stations around, and this was about one of those. This particular one was high up in a mountain, and a capacitor was in need of change. Size a bit smaller than a garage.
So a person put the new capacitor in his backpack (yep, one of the rather big ones..), got up there (took a few hours), cut the power, removed the old one and popped in the new one. Put on the power, everything looked ok and he went back down.
When he got back down, the central had tried reaching him for a while, because they'd lost contact with it. So up again he went, and when he got up there, the power station was gone. There was some wood splinters here and there, and some twisted metal, maybe enough to fill a bag. But the station was gone.
You might have a look at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/ - I've had some luck with it on similar tasks
Shouldn't web browsers be almost embaressingly easy to parallellize, or am I missing something here?
Each page in its own thread / process, plus loading of page:
1. dns resolve
2. fetch html
3. parse html
3a. find css link, start thread for fetching and parsing css
3b. find image link, start thread for fetching and parsing image
3x. so on and so forth for other resources encountered.
4. run js in seperate thread if needed
5. run plugins in seperate threads / processes
The lags I forsee here are network related, and as far as I can see, it should be rather easy to parallellize large chunks of it.
But, as I haven't written my own web browser, I'm probably missing something fundamental here.
Anyone who thinks Java is fossilizing needs to give their head a shake. It's everywhere, and it's being used in very diverse ways.
Well, to be exact, so does oil... ;)
You don't say? That's very interesting indeed.
*Starts marketing special sunglasses to the army*
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2062218 have some info about it... Or rather, a lot of people reporting the same, and nothing from the site admins.
Oblig : http://xkcd.com/225/
And that fit so well, you'd believe OP planned it :)
There are a few things:
1. The border patrol agent is the face of the american government, and thus the face of USA
2. The agent acted out of line, with physical abuse (punches to the face, unneccesarily maced)
3. It's caught on camera.
4. The agent seem to have no consequences from it.
5. The unlucky victim is found guilty of breaking the law, by essentially asking why he was punched in the face
Are you still wondering why people react? That guy should be given a public apology, and the border guard should be kicked out.
Instead, the law (aka government, aka USA) supports him, and criminalizes the victim of the abuse.
Let me see.. Rocket engine, uplift much higher than weight, 1000mph...
That's a jet plane, not a car. Sure, it got better landing wheels than normal, and a bit special body, but it's still a goddamn jet plane.
If that's a car, we've had flying cars for over 50 years now.
Well.. Except for the americans now and then, no. Not really.
Is this a trick question?
Chuck Norris, of course.
FreeNX? Not sure, don't think so. NX Free? Yes :)
(yes, I know it's a bit confusing. NX Free is NoMachine closed source client with max limit of two connections, FreeNX is the open source server)